# TargetWise, free, POST /api/v1/prospecting/contacts/search: People search API

> Returns a bounded page of contact candidates for known company domains, optionally narrowed by company location, contact location and seniority. Candidate results exclude email and phone.

TargetWise's Free plan for the people search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. TargetWise's docs list 2 of the 13 fields on our checklist: Experience, Location.
We haven't run TargetWise through [our people search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 696 plans for people search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.77 or less per 1,000 people. [See the best free people search API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
[Coresignal's $49 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/coresignal/49-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 people. Coresignal's $49 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many people as Coresignal's rate limit allows. [Seltz's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/seltz/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-search-base/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 people a month: $0.03.
[PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack (/api/v1/search)](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/peoplesearch-im/5-pack-starter-post-api-v1-search/llms.txt) covers any number of people. PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack costs less up front than Coresignal's $49 monthly plan.
[GetProspect](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/getprospect/49-monthly-starter-post-v2-people-search-people-search/llms.txt), [QuickEnrich](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/quickenrich/399-monthly-gtm-unlimited-get-api-employees-dataset-search/llms.txt) and [AnyAPI](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/anyapi/top-up-from-10-manual-top-up-post-v1-run-people-search-quickenrich/llms.txt) are the best people search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/targetwise/free-post-api-v1-prospecting-contacts-search
- [People lookup API: best people search providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://targetwise.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://targetwise.ai/api/v1/prospecting/contacts/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://targetwise.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://targetwise.ai/developers/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: TargetWise (https://targetwise.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 15%
- Experience: ✓ current job
- Location: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 people: $0.00
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 250
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Find companies by identity · Search employees · Get employee details · Autocomplete company fields · Find a work email · Find a business phone · Enrich a contact · Enrich a company · Reverse email lookup · Search companies

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Returns a bounded page of contact candidates for known company domains, optionally narrowed by company location, contact location and seniority. Candidate results exclude email and phone.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Subject to payment and these terms, you receive a non-exclusive licence to use lawfully obtained results for your internal business operations, including your internal software and AI-assisted workflows. You may retain results already obtained for those purposes after subscription expiry, subject to privacy rights, lawful retention limits and any valid removal requirement. [...] Reselling a database, redistributing results to customers, embedding them in a third-party product, providing an agency service or training a model requires an order form that expressly permits that activity. [...] Do not use the data as a consumer report or for decisions about consumer credit, insurance, housing or employment eligibility.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 3 credits a day
- Expires: unused free credits do not roll over, they reset daily at midnight UTC

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: domains. Optional: company_locations, contact_locations, seniorities, page, limit
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/prospecting/contacts/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: businesses with a verified work email: the terms are for business use, not personal or household use

## The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

status, request ID, person ID, full name, first name, last name, role, seniority, departments, LinkedIn URL, location, country, company ID, company name, company website, company LinkedIn URL, total results, retrieved at, source provenance

## TargetWise's plans (2)

- [TargetWise, free, POST /api/v1/prospecting/contacts/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/targetwise/free-post-api-v1-prospecting-contacts-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete
- [TargetWise, contact us, Volume pricing, POST /api/v1/prospecting/contacts/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/targetwise/contact-us-volume-pricing-post-api-v1-prospecting-contacts-search/llms.txt): 15% complete

## TargetWise's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /api/v1/prospecting/contacts/search`: [TargetWise, free, POST /api/v1/prospecting/contacts/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/targetwise/free-post-api-v1-prospecting-contacts-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /api/v1/employees/search`: [TargetWise, free, POST /api/v1/employees/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/targetwise/free-post-api-v1-employees-search/llms.txt)

## TargetWise's APIs (7)

- [TargetWise: company enrichment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/targetwise/free/llms.txt)
- [TargetWise: email finder API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/targetwise/free/llms.txt)
- [TargetWise: phone finder API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/targetwise/free/llms.txt)
- [TargetWise: people enrichment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/targetwise/free/llms.txt)
- [TargetWise: reverse email lookup API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/targetwise/free/llms.txt)
- [TargetWise: company discovery API pricing, 2 plans, POST /api/v1/companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/targetwise/free-post-api-v1-companies-search/llms.txt)
- [TargetWise: company discovery API pricing, 2 plans, POST /api/v1/prospecting/companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/targetwise/free-post-api-v1-prospecting-companies-search/llms.txt)
- [TargetWise: people search API pricing, 2 plans, POST /api/v1/prospecting/contacts/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/targetwise/free-post-api-v1-prospecting-contacts-search/llms.txt)

## TargetWise: people search API alternatives

- [GetProspect, free, POST /v2/people/search, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/getprospect/free-post-v2-people-search-people-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [QuickEnrich, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/quickenrich/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, stored
- [AnyAPI, free trial key, POST /v1/run/people_search.ai_ark](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/anyapi/free-trial-key-post-v1-run-people-search-ai-ark/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, 30 days
- [Loopster, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/loopster/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 day

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

- https://targetwise.ai/api/v1/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://targetwise.ai/developers/agents.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://targetwise.ai/developers/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://targetwise.ai/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://targetwise.ai/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://targetwise.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://targetwise.ai/products/waterfall-enrichment-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing